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hello and welcome to westminster where the conservative party has two fewer mps today. that s after the tories suffered two by election defeats losing safe seats to labour and the liberal democrats. labour overturned a majority of more than 20,000 votes in the north yorkshire seat of selby and ainsty. the lib dems won somerton and frome in somerset, overturning a 19,000 vote majority. their leader says that a powerful message had been sent to the conservative party. but the tories held on to borisjohnson s former constituency of uxbridge and south ruislip in west london winning by just a95 votes. we ll be live in each of those constituencies in a moment but first here s our political
we just have to stick together . how hopeful do you think they feel? there are a huge number of tory mps stepping down at the next election. i suspect that number will increase as we go forward. i don t think there is much hope. if you look at the local council elections, these three results with a bit of a spring in the step because of uxbridge perhaps, people will go back to their constituencies thinking about what this means for them going forward. there will be looking at the government. it really doesn t have that much time left. we keep talking about the future and hope, but in a year or so, before the next election, how much time do you actually have to get legislation through and make an impact? how is the pm tracking against the five commitments he has made? in the case of inflation, slightly positive news this week, but not meeting his target. and just because you meet a number, people have to see and feel the difference
if you look at the swing away from the conservatives in all of the seats, it does not bode well for the general election, and i think, a lot of mps, notjust some in marginal seats, a lot of these majorities were over 20,000 in the north and the south. conservative strongholds, where a lot of mps will be going to recess really worried, thinking about the future and what they might want to do going forward. so, we will get a lot of the presentation today, people looking for the positives, but actually, i think that overall, particularly because the win in uxbridge was the singular issue, as we have been discussing, it does not bode well. have you spoken or heard from any tory mps over the last few hours? any reaction from them? yeah. there is a bit of a sigh of relief. there was always the expectation management that it was going to be 3 0. three losses. it feels like they have something to hold onto. it has put more scrutiny on labour, as well. in opposition, it is very easy to attack e